Children's Senior Residential Support Worker

**Job Title: Senior Children’s Residential Care Workers**

**Location: Telford / Wolverhampton**

**Salary: £26,325 per year plus £50 per sleep in (£13.50 per hour) plus £40 per sleep in**

**Driving License Essential**

**Previous experience within the care setting and NVQ / QCF Level 3, level 4 or equivalent essential**

Other Benefits: Pension scheme, annual leave, use of company cars, free parking, meals provided on shift, enhanced overtime payments, activities with young people and access to Qualification/training and opportunities for career progression.

**Hours: 162.5 hours per month**

**Contract: Permanent**

We are looking for senior support workers to join an established and a new home to come and join a small family run organisation where you can work without being overwhelmed by the size of the organisation.

We want people who want to make the difference for young people who have not been given the life chances they deserve.

We are looking for people who are caring, patient, flexible, have a sense of humour, responsible but able to have fun and make our young people’s lives more enjoyable. Come and join our fantastic team as a Senior Residential Support Worker and you will be able to support our children and young people make progress in their daily lives. We offer a safe nurturing environment for the young people to flourish. Be a part of making a difference to a young person’s life by giving them the opportunity to grow.

We like to feel that we are a great company to work for which will give you the opportunity to start or continue your career in care. We are a small organisation who put our young people and staff first. You will be working as part of a team committed to helping children with varied and complex needs. This line of work can offer a challenges however can also be very rewarding. All of our settings we strive to maintain a strong safeguarding culture, ensuring young people’s views, wishes and feelings are listened to.

Senior Residential Support Workers are supported to carry out an essential and varied roles to provide individual care and support to each young person in placement. We take on the parental role for the young people as co-operate parents, this includes taking young people to education, appointments, to enjoy activities and clubs with them, administer medication alongside ensuring all relevant paperwork is completed to evidence our work to the governing bodies. Don’t forget as a co-operate parent you also have to do the household tasks as you would at home. Senior Residential Support Workers are part of the management team in completing staff supervisions and ensuring the home and work together to support both staff and young people to make progress.

The young people are is always top of our agenda as they should be, we are looking for a Senior Residential Support Worker, who shares our vision to promote each young person’s to achieve the best possible outcome for themselves to enable then to go on and make a future for themselves and thrive.

Previous experience within the care setting and QCF Level 3 or level 4 are needed for this role. Supervisory experience would be great, but as we have previously said we all start somewhere as we develop and progress in our roles. We offer full training for all roles, so if you believe you have the right qualities and are resilient come and join us to make a difference.

**About us**:
Oak Childcare Plus is a small organisation who are registered with Ofsted, we have 2 x 3 bedded services which offer 1:1 staffing ratio’s enabling the young people to have the attention and time from staff they need to thrive.

We are within commuting distance of Wolverhampton, Telford, Dudley, Stafford, Cannock, Walsall and surrounding areas.

**Why come and join us?**

We are a small friendly organisation that wants to stay small to enable us to ensure the young people and staff don’t become lost in a bigger system and become just a number. Each young person and staff will be a name not a number.

There are career opportunities to develop within the organisation, you will have access to Continuing Professional Development to help pursue your personal goals. We offer accredited training programmes including QCF level 4 and level 5 alongside ongoing learning opportunities.

**Essential Qualifications needed for the senior role**

Level 3 Children & Young Peoples Workforce Diploma with social care pathway or Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or NVQ 3 caring for children & young people, or NVQ 3 health & social care

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £26,3250 per year plus sleep in rate of £50 per sleep

Work remotely
- No

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £13.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Flexitime

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Residential Childcare: 1 year (required)